What a month it’s been. Over 500 NFL players entered the free agency market and something like two-thirds of them have now joined new teams. I don’t recall there ever being an offseason anything like this one.
Not only has there been a huge number of players switching teams, a bunch of the league’s best players have cast their lot with new teams. It used to be that it was the players who wanted to become free agents in order to get big money deals. Now, for many of the league’s best players, it’s the teams that choose not to re-sign their best players in order to stay under the salary cap.